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19221996New York: Workers Education Bureau of America 1922. 196p. wraps slightly chipped along the edges. Workers Education Bureau series. Workers Education Bureau of America unknown books
1923001659New York: Workers Education Bureau of America 1923. Fine. 16 page stapled in pictorial wrappers. Articles by A.J. Muste George S. Lackland Hilda Smith and Algernon Lee. Scarce. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Workers Education Bureau of America Paperback books
1560045018Basel: Heinrich Petri 1560. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Full contemporary rolled pigskin worn and discolored coming loose from the wooden boards lacking clasps. Cords and binding intact. Endpapers title chipped and worn first sections with some wear and discoloring scattered foxing otherwise and mostly quite clean. The first German edition of Giovio's influential Historiarum sui Temporis libri XLV first published in Latin in 1552. viii ccccxli 9; iv ccccix 1 7pp. Size: Folio. 2-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045018. <br/><br/> Heinrich Petri hardcover books
193841356New York: the Union 1938. Pamphlet. 29p. wraps first published in 1934 this edition revised. the Union unknown books
16710Handwritten project book from primary school student. Story of the Pilgrims. 1905. Child's notebooks with original yellow card-stock boards bound in green cloth. 7 in x 6 in. 17 handwritten pages. Gilt title on front cover and spine. Includes drawings and pasted images of Plymouth Rock Native Americans ships and others. Charming handwritten project book from a child at the turn of the century. Handwritten report on "The Story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving". "There was a King that sent all the people of England to go to the Church of England but there were some people that did not like that at all and sometime they had a little meeting in their cellar so that they went tot Holland and all the Holland people welcomed the Pilgrims and the Pilgrims stayed in Holland for two years. Then the Pilgrims went over to America in the boat called the Mayflower and the Speedwell but the Speedwell broke down so that all the Pilgrims and the people in Holland were so sorry to have them leave.they had a very hard time crossing the ocean. They landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 4 days before Christmas. They saw a few Indians they said they had better always keep their guns with them. " The last page lists things to be thankful for: "We should be thankful for our homes and kind parents and our food for our nice things to with for clothes for flowers and for being well." Also includes report on Holland and a story about a girl named Gretchen. unknown books
16658Women Education 19th Century Handwritten composition notebook of a young woman filled with poems and verses in many hands dating from 1862-1863. Includes poetry about studying for school examinations and writing compositions. 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Original green boards. 78 pages full of handwritten poems and verses. Handwritten on front end page: "Katie E. Kimmens. Providence 11th Mo. 1862."<br/><br/>"A week before Examination" "One has a headache one a cold One has her neck in flannel rolled; Ask the complaint and you are told 'Next week's examination'.One bangs the books then grasps them tight And studies morning noon and night As though she took some strange delight In these examinations/ The books are marred defaced and thumbed The brains with midnight tasks benumed Still all in that account is summed Next week's examinations" "Compositions" "Some have a lesson hard to get And have not even seen it yet Ask when what tis that makes them fret "Oh dear tis Composition Day"!/ One's last and cannot find her pen Another has no paper then The cause of this but ask of them And each in sighing tones will say "Oh dear tis Composition Day"!/ One rises with the morning light Takes up her pen begins to write; And seems to take some strange delight When e'er she hears a scholar say "Oh dear tis Composition Day"! Includes poems by well-known writers such as Lord Tennyson "St. Agnes Eve" and "Come Not When I Am Dead" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Village Blacksmith" and Thomas Hood "The Bridge of Sighs". Also includes poems about the perils of war "The Soldier's Dream of Home" and the difficulty of losing a parent: "I cannot call her Mother" "The marriage rites are over And though I turned aside To keep the guests from seeing The tears I could not hide I . my face in smiling And led my little brother To greet my father's chosen But I could not call her Mother." Light toning to first page and occasional light stains throughout. Very good condition. unknown books
1666019th century Handwritten Composition book filled with handwritten poems and verses from a young lady in Lancaster County Pennsylvania 1880-1883. Original cloth boards. 8 1/4 x 7 in. "Compositions" embossed on front cover. 100 pages. Each page filled with handwritten poems and reflections including writing about attending school and nostalgia for being a student. "Mary A. Dunlap Willow Grove School 1880" written on first page. Original poems such as "Away to School" and "The School House on the Hill" "Fond memory paints the scenes of other years Green be their memory still And bright amid those joyous scenes appear the school house on the hill. // Cho. Oh I never can forget no I never can forget The old school house on the hill. // There hands the swing upon the maple-tree Where you and I once swung; There flows the spring forever flowing free As when we both were young. // There climb the vines and there the berries grow which once we prised so high; And there the ripe nuts glisten in the glow Of rich October sky."<br/><br/>Includes original history reports on American Literature and The Colonial Period 1640-1760. "The Colonial Age was mainly one of fighting and manual industry.The drama then the most popular form of literature in England was not tolerated by the Puritans and did not flourish therefore in America. Libraries were few and the means of communication but scant; hence the age was not favorable to literary development and the growth of American literature was slow indeed." Includes list of prominent American writers including: Thomas Jefferson John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Excerpts from several of Shakespeare's most famous works including Twelfth Night "Music/ That strain again; it had a dying fall; Oh it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and giving odor" and As You Like It. "Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in its head". Seven drafted letters at end of book regarding dinner invitations letters of condolence and a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly. Last several pages are ledger book of loans and debts. Brown stain in upper inside corner of book affecting last 40 pages. Very good condition. unknown books
16537Friendship album of young lady students from 1862-1864 at Golden Hill Seminary in Bridgeport CT durin the Civil war. "Landscape Album." New York: Published by Leavitt & Allen circa 1862. Original red leather boards. 8 ½ x 7 in. Embossed front and back cover gilt-edged pages and gilt detail on front cover and spine. 67 pages. Includes 4 full-page landscape engravings of Smyrna Albany Bedford Springs PA and Zarapha the Ancient Sarepta in addition to 1 engraving on the title page. Includes 86 handwritten notes inscriptions and autographs from fellow students. 2 small portrait photos approx. 1 ½ x 1 in. and ¾ x ½ in. are pasted into book with note and signature. Some foxing and toning on engraving pages. Very good condition.<br/><br/>Signature and memento album kept by a student named Mary while studying at the Golden Hill Seminary in Bridgeport CT. Almost every page is filled with handwritten warm wishes of friendship pithy phrases and short poems such as "Not like the rose shall our friendship wither but like the evergreeen live forever" and "Our school soon will end. And I am going away. But try to remember your friend at some far distant day." "Is there no other tie that binds Has love the only claim Yes there is one that binds us fast And friendship is its name." Many of the inscriptions are dated to months in late spring or winter when academic semester would conclude and students would travel to their hometowns to visit with family. "Dear Mary May guardian angels their soft wings display To guard my friend from every dangerous way May health and happiness your steps attend May you always have an never want a friend In every state of life may you most happy be And when you're at a distance thing of me." "In future years when thou shall see Thou lines that I have penned Oh then may memory bring to view The image of your loving friend." "Something you wished me to write So something it shall be And when you think of something Think of me." "As gold more splendid from the fire appears So "Friendship" brightens by the length of years." "Twine thy brow with a lofty wreath with a wreath made not of glittering jewels from some far off mine." Some classmates listed their hometowns along with their autographs including places as far away as New York City and even Canada. The Golden Hill Seminary was founded in 1856 as a boarding school that would provide a moral literary and domestic education for young ladies. An extensive collection of autographs notes and well-wishes from classmates at a boarding school for young ladies. <br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. This document dates only from 14 years after Seneca Falls. unknown books
17021Women Education Handwritten Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems essays and stories. 111 handwritten pages. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" and dated "9-6-75" on first page. Entries date to 1875. Original boards. 9 x 7.5 in. Decorative green and purple flower design on covers page edges gilt. Includes several verses from Shakespeare including a few lines from A Midsummer's Night Dream: "Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger At whose approach ghosts wandering here and there Troop home to churchyards." Includes an excerpt about "The Moon" from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost: "Rising in clouded majesty at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Notably women writers are also represented in the composition book. She includes "Continuance of Moral Education" by Harriet Martineau the British social theorist who is often cited as the first female sociologist. Also includes material originally written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter Scott and Scottish writer John Wilson pen name Christopher North. Copying essays poetry stories and compositions was the standard teaching tool throughout the 19th century. The exercise taught handwriting spelling grammar knowledge of literature and other subjects of the material and elocution. This composition book is an excellent example of a young lady's schoolwork in the mid-19th century. Spine is damaged with losses. 4 pages have stray marks or scribbles in margins from a later hand in blue ink not affecting text. Good to very good condition. unknown books
17020Women Education Handwritten Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems and essays. 119 handwritten pages including a 2-page index at the conclusion. Entries dated 1873-1874. Original boards. Floral decorative pattern in white blue and gold on both covers page edges gilt. 9 x 7.5 in. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" on first page. Filled with handwritten poems and essays including work by Edgar Allen Poe James Montgomery William Wordsworth Charles Dickens Elizabeth Browning Shakespeare Washington Irving and Oliver Goldsmith. Also short fiction such as "The Monk" part of Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy first published in 1765 and reprinted several times in the 19th century for teaching elocution.  Copying essays poetry stories and compositions was the standard teaching tool throughout the 19th century. The exercise taught handwriting spelling grammar knowledge of literature and other subjects of the material and elocution. The handwritten notebook also contains scientific material including a composition on "The Eye" investigating the properties of the human eye and eyes of other animals and animals that have no eyes such as "the starfishes have are mere sensitive points dimly conscious of forms." Also historical material including a composition on the Ancient Greek city Thermopile and a letter from Protestant Reformer Martin Luther to his son. This composition book is an excellent example of a young lady's schoolwork in the mid-19th century. 13 pages have stray marks or scribbles from a later hand in purple blue and orange ink; most marks are in margins and do not affect text legibility. Vertical tear to first page at top left edge along binding. Losses and damage to spine. Good to very good condition. unknown books
19353708Chicago: The International Council of Religious Education 1935. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 28pp. Fresh and unmarked; about Fine. Christian Quest Pamphlet number 19. Anti-war instruction for Christian youth. The International Council of Religious Education unknown books
1679045188Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano 1679. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf heavily worn at the corners recently neatly respined. Browning to page edges otherwise clean internally. A nice Greek/Latin edition of this Sixth century Byzantine history. viii 384pp. Lacking front and rear blanks. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045188. <br/><br/> E Theatro Sheldoniano hardcover books
1987262853San Francisco: Harvey Milk AIDS Education Fund 1987. 12-panel brochure 4x5.5 inchestext in Spanish illustrated with cartoons on AIDS prevention very good in brown and white covers. The brochure originally handed out at the Gay Freedom Day Parade was reissued with changes reflecting changing knowledge of AIDS every year for five years. Harvey Milk AIDS Education Fund unknown books
